13And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
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And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-15)We have here the instructions that Christ gave to his disciples, when he gave them their commission. Whether this charge was given them in a continued discourse, or the several articles of it hinted to them at several times, is not material; in this he commanded them . Jacob’s blessing his sons, is called his commanding them, and with these commands Christ commanded a blessing. Observe, I. The peo…
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